This collection of four essays explores the cultural boundaries of Chinese science and medicine, in particular their connections with the most general issues of abstract thought and religious experience. It concludes with bibliographic guides to important books and articles on the Taoist religion.Ler mais...

I. Comparing Greek and Chinese Philosophy and Science --
II. Emotional Counter-therapy --
III. The First Neo-Confucianism: An introduction to Yang Hsiung's 'Canon of Supreme Mystery' / Sivin Nathan and Michael Nylan --
IV. The Myth of the Naturalists --
V. On the Limits of Empirical Knowledge in Chinese and Western Science --
VI. On the Word 'Taoist' as a Source of Perplexity --
VII. Taoism and Science --
VIII. Research on the Height of Chinese Alchemy --
IX. An Introductory Bibliography of Traditional Chinese Medicine: Books and Articles in Western Languages.